In order to force myself to write about something Catholic in the next day or two, I thought I would go ahead and put a post in place for it. This is in the form of late night ... I am tired, style, rambling ...

I have been thinking about common gateways that lead people into the Church based on conversion stories that I have read. Some of these one liners are related. I am brainstorming ... or braindrizzling more like it ...

Collapse of pillar of Protestant belief, usually sola scriptura
Authority
Biblical synergy .. it all made so much more sense read from the Catholic viewpoint
Moral teachings, especially related to sexuality and marriage
Real Presence
Historicity of the faith
Indescribable sympathy for the Church due to the unusual amount of outright hatred you witness spilled forth towards it.

Generally, a pursuit of truth and a HIGH expectation on what it is and that it can be found precedes all of this. All of the above were parts of my conversion.

For some folks it is ONE thing or ONE moment. For others, like me it was a struggle. This SEEMS true ... but is it? You spend years looking for ways to avoid a seemingly inevitable conversion but eventually your objections are answered. They ALWAYS are ... Its a happy moment to realize it is going to happen though.

My question centers around what FIRST gets one looking at the Catholic faith.

For me it was the moral teachings, particularly contraception and the history of that teaching within Protestantism and the unbelievable willingness by most people I talked to who simply avoid looking into the question. To me, getting married begged the question. Most people just assume it is answered ...

Anyway ... tired .... still Catholic. Bye